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There are also first-rate representative pieces by Murillo, Sanchez Coello and Antonio Pereda...
...Professor Pereda (TIME, April 9) was "too weak to speak" at any time during his seven-day hunger strike, "it was weakness of intellect, birdie, I cried" and not weakness due to famine...
Professor Pereda (TIME. April 9, p. 18), during his seven-day fast, did not go home to bed-he remained at the Plaza night and day. And he did not shrill at the woman from the U. S. when he said: "You damned woman...
Indignant at the vote for Statehood, Professor Clemente Pereda who hunger-struck for independence (TIME, April 9) demanded the formation of an Independence Party. Angry that the Professor should seek to split the Nationalist Party (which also carries the independence banner ) Student Francisco Pagan Rodriguez assaulted Patriot Pereda. In no wise had seven foodless days permanently incapacitated the Professor. With one roundhouse right he floored his assailant, proceeded to pummel him until they were separated...
...days wore on Professor Pereda received more gifts-images of the Virgin, jigsaw puzzles. A former woman student, now a teacher, gave him (at his request) a manicure, and one patriotic young admirer took an oath not to shave until Puerto Rico was independent. As the professor grew weaker, he was moved to a cot in the reading room of the City Hall, facing the square. Too weak to speak, he read by the hour in Dante's Inferno. As the clock struck six one morning, the hour that ended his fast, Pereda sat up, crossed himself, bowed...